SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS: Parenting adoption – experiencing extreme emotions in the phase of the decision on adoption

• Authors: Bieńkowska, Małgorzata

Abstracts

EN

This article focuses on the emotional experiences of adoptive families particularly in theinitial phase of adoptive parenthood. It is part of a research project devoted to the constructionof adoptive parenthood. The argument I develop here is based on empirical datafrom participant observation, autoethnography and an analysis of the existing literature.Employing the concept and method of bricolage, I consider issues related to adoptive parenthoodwhich have merged from two different empirical data sets. On the one hand,I use unstructured interviews conducted after a phase of autoethnography and participantobservation in an informal support group for people waiting for adoption and with adoptivefamilies (which was the main inspiration for this article); on the other hand, I analyseblogs which are dedicated to all issues concerning adoption.

Keywords

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Adoption; reflective parenting; Emotions; participant observation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 17(4)
• Pages: 11-26

Dates

published

2017-08-28

Contributors

author

Bieńkowska, Małgorzata